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Sunday, October 25, 2009

Google Visualization API

After seeing this video, reading the API documentation, and playing around with some of the scripts, I'm realizing that this great toolset is making an impact on a lot of startup Web services. Google Finance uses it, and I saw another Twitter-based service that incorporated some of the charts as well in just the past week. The best things about the Google Visualization API: It's free, it's based on javascript, it's relatively easy to use, and it dovetails into people's existing Excel/spreadsheet projects. Geek out ...